The country's worst still caring disaster has ravaged an area approximately the size of England, affected 20 million people, exacerbated a crippling energy disaster and raising fears of social unrest.

"It appears we're fated to walking through a dark tunnel. We're on an endless path of misery," said Morio Pahore, a planter from small town Thul in southern Pakistan who is now living in a tent on a highway.

Shirtless, his face burnt dark by the sun, the graying 50-year-old said he lost all when the rains fell and the river rupture its banks.